Defeating enemies and completing quests or otherwise making progress earns you experience towards leveling up, whereupon you can distribute some stat points and choose a skill to take. You can only craft something if you have the blueprints and the proper items, but don't neglect it, since it's far cheaper than buying healing items! The red half of the globe at the bottom of the screen represents your health, while blue denotes mana, and you'll want to keep an eye on both of them during combat. opens your inventory, where you can equip items with a click or review your notes, or even check your crafting ingredients. You can also click and drag to pull certain objects around the area, looking for hidden items or creating barricades. Click to move or interact, and hold down the mouse button to keep walking towards it. The game will give you a handy tutorial on the finer points as you encounter them, but the basics are. Presented in top-down view, the game is controlled primarily with the mouse and a series of hotkeys for special abilities. Driftmoon's gleeful embrace of adventure and cheery fairytale excitement will make this a compulsively playable, relaxing RPG experience for almost anyone. A whopping seven years in the making and boasting an integrated mod creation and download system, it's a light-hearted fantasy adventure with swash-buckling hermit crabs, ancient magical MacGuffins, murderous disembodied hands named Mitten, heroic fireflies, and much, much more. But in a way, these are actually good things, because it's the way Instant Kingdom's epic indie action RPG Driftmoon kicks off. Climbing out and finding everyone else in the village has been turned to stone? Even worse. If you want to see more reviews of great indie games, please consider backing this project.Being shoved down a well and given a concussion by your own mother is not a great start to a day. Oh, and right now it’s half price on Steam, GOG and Humble, for the rest of this week, so get it!Īll Buried Treasure articles are funded by Patreon backers. No, it’s not a BioWare competitor, but as an indie project from a two-person team, it’s a real pleasure. So yes, this is some loveliness, and who doesn’t need some loveliness right now. Instant Kingdom are so supportive of modding that they’re still highlighting mods made for their 2003 game, Notrium! The game has had a small modding community since its initial release, and you can still explore all that has been added that way. It’s also in so many ways an overt love letter between the couple, and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out your character’s love interest might have a fair bit in common with Anne. You can tell this is a work of love, and I don’t just mean “created in their spare time”, which it absolutely was. That’s an odd criteria to judge a game by, I agree, but it’s so appropriate here. But as a piece of loveliness, Driftmoon shines. (It’s worth noting combat can be completely turned off, too). There are jokes that don’t quite hit, and the combat certainly leaves a lot to be desired – you click on an enemy and then it gets on with it, you interrupting to use skills when it feels appropriate. And yet, it’s so bursting with charm, and such a sweetly crafted thing, that you can’t resent a bit of it. It’s also fair to say that, more so than in 2013, it does feel rather rough around the edges, despite the various upgrades it’s since received. It’s quite the most extraordinary thing for two people to make an RPG, even a relatively short one like this. Plus, like all good RPGs, it’s about how you choose to behave along the way. More significantly, you can dramatically change the way the main events play out by the decisions you make, with calamitously bad endings available, alongside varying happy possibilities. While you don’t get a pool of companions to choose from, you do pick up a range of buddies to bring with you along the way, or you can ask them not to come along. That’s not to say you don’t affect the story. You’re the bloke you are, and you’re mostly staying that way. So while you level up, and pick between Strength, Agility, Endurance, etc, and while there’s a sapling of a skill tree to pick from, there’s no real character class or development here. What follows is in many ways a very traditional old-school RPG, albeit quite significantly stripped down in favour of being story-first. And now, with the help of a young man named Word, and a very excitable firefly called Fizz, you’re off to try to find out how to save everyone. That mean ol’ undead man has turned everyone in your village to stone! You were only saved when your mother pushed you down a well seconds before.
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This technique allows Ula to move away from an apparent brushstroke at times. These layers create a naturally chaotic but controlled aggression with her message. She uses the inherent qualities of differing consistencies of paint to create layers that partially exist to evoke her surreal environment. Dzwonik paints her works highlighting portions of the canvas or panels by painting blemishes and noise accentuating the unbounded nature of her characters.Īnother way in which Dzwonik creates her distressed aesthetic is through her stamping technique. Her forms and ideas tend not to accept the arbitrary boundaries of the shapes as endpoints, as if each work is but a piece of a larger stencil that has the capacity to stretch over the edge of the subject. Ula Dzwonik’s work for instance, seems as Organic and primitive, characterized by “the use of distressed layers” she works towards this goal using multiple color coats forming a loud and broken surrealist image.ĭzwonik’s works often have pasty smudges-like, concentrated with larger blocks of color, creating a distinct vibrant connection to the background. Dzwonik, Giesse and RodriguezĪt ARTSPACE 8, artists, Ula Dzwonik, Martin Giesse and Fidel Rodriguez, particularly we refer to their work as “organic.” They do not aim to obfuscate the human-made aspect of their work but, through their chosen techniques and styles, accentuate their ability to create a more organic effect in their art. Rather, an “organic” production of feels as if art moves away from personal expression and emotion of the artist and towards the beauty in nature and the natural formation of color and form. The more visible the hand and brushstroke of the painter, the less organic a work becomes. However, the use of the term “organic” in art can actually help to define a “non-painterly” approach. Martin Giesse Exploring the Natural Aesthetic in ArtĪrt is often associated with the human hand, and the word “organic” might seem like a paradox when used to describe it. You get a two-pack of preassembled lanterns that include wall brackets and screws (no tools included). If you are looking for wall-mountable lantern-style lights, this option from Home Zone is the perfect choice. However, if you are looking for durable, bright lights with useful features, you can’t go wrong with this pick.ĭimensions: 11.81 x 5.43 x 4.33 inches | Lumens: Not listed | Power Source: Solar panel and 2200 mAh rechargeable battery | Charging time: 1-2 days first use, up to 8 hours on cloudy days | Operating time: 6-12 hours depending on setting | Lights in sets: 2 | Weather Resistance Rating: IP68 | Color Temperature: 6500K And they are more cool-toned (6500K) than we'd prefer for a home. However, they are not particularly stylish. These spotlights feature 30 LED light chips, which help illuminate your pathway or yard easily, stand up to the elements, and are noted by the manufacturer to have a 40,000-hour lifespan. After each test, the lights still worked just as well as before! We also dropped a golf ball on their solar light panel from a distance of 6 feet, and they still held up. Since the manufacturer claims these lights have the highest waterproof rating and are frost-resistant, we sprinkled water on them, then froze them for over an hour. We were impressed at how these lights held up during our durability tests. (It did, however, take us a few minutes at first to figure out how to trigger them.) Easy to put together (just two pieces), this two-pack of lights can either be staked into the ground (the method we tested) or mounted onto a wall with the included hardware. The three modes that operate from dusk until dawn-dim light/high light when motion is detected no light/high light when motion is detected or medium light/constantly on-give you options to suit your lighting needs and are simple to use. Our top pick, AloftSun Motion Sensor Solar Landscape Spotlights, withstood all of our durability tests, are easy to use, and are bright enough to read by! These spotlights can detect motion from as much as 33 feet away, depending on the setting. We even video-recorded them overnight to make sure they truly stayed on from dusk until dawn! To test wall-mounted lights, we tested and installed 18 options in our own homes. And then we went beyond: We froze them, read under them, and dropped golf balls on their solar panels. After assembling and charging them in sunlight for the time specified by the manufacturer's instructions, we evaluated their assembly, brightness, features, design, value, and durability. Over the course of several days, we tested 27 different solar lights at our Lab in Des Moines, Iowa, including path lights, spotlights, lanterns, wall-mounted, and string lights. Will they be a tripping hazard? Are you able to install them into your pavement or garden?" "Does the light need to be direct or spread out? The height of your solar lights is also important. "How much brightness do you need?" she recommends asking yourself. But it's important to consider the placement and purpose of outdoor solar lights, says Sheva Knopfler, Co-Founder and Creative Director of, a well-known online retailer of all kinds of lights and lightbulbs. They tend to be budget-friendly and easy to install, and you can place them exactly where you want them because they don't require plug-in power sources. Outdoor lights using solar energy are the perfect landscape lighting solution.
Real-time battles will pose new challenges with the addition of cannon and musket, challenging players to master new formations and tactics as a result of the increasing role of gunpowder within warfare. In addition, Total War: EMPIRE will see further enhancements to the Total War series’ signature 3D battles and turn-based campaign map. After pummelling your enemy with cannon fire, close in to grapple their ship and prepare to board, taking control of your men as they fight hand-to-hand on the decks of these wooden behemoths. For the first time in the Total War series, you will be able to intuitively command single ships or vast fleets upon seascapes rich with extraordinary water and weather effects that play a huge role in your eventual glorious success or ignominious defeat. Total War: EMPIRE introduces a host of revolutionary new features, including true 3D naval combat. Total War: EMPIRE takes the Total War franchise to the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment a time of political upheaval, military advancements, and radical thought, captured in stunning detail. See below for full details.Ĭontrol the land, command the seas, forge a new nation, and conquer the globe. Total War: EMPIRE Definitive Edition offers hundreds and hundreds of hours of absorbing gameplay and every bit of content made for the game. Take on the Warpath Campaign and lead one of 5 new Native American factions in an epic war to defend your lands and drive out the invaders.īuild up your armies with the Elite Units of the East, Elite Units of the West, Elite Units of America and the Special Forces Units & Bonus Content packs, which together add over 50 elite new units. They can probably monetize with skins and other cosmetics.Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: EMPIRE, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release: All we need is a ditto game simply updated to 2020 visuals, technical and audio fidelity. That is why all we need is a remake, as they probably dont have the talent to make a new classic rts to live up to c&c name, but they have good workforce, tech and budget. If you think about it now, it was probably them unable to figure out a proper EA type of monetization that could gain them profit returns. But i never read generals 2 had development issues with the engine, they had mostly directional and multiplayer problems, as the game was already mostly done. I remember Bioware and ghost games having issues with frostbite, well anything other than battlefield would require a lot of extra modification and effort. Though making an RTS game with Frostbite is kind of a nightmare since the engine wasn't made with RTS in mind. Generals 2/C&C F2P was using the Frostbite engine before cancellation. Originally posted by WhiteKnight:I would love to see Generals & ZH on Frostbite engine. So why not simply finish that project as it was initially planed as full price title? The reason for cancellation was simply, they couldn't figure out how to monetize a free2play RTS. The Project was clearly mismanaged with "free-to-play", anyway quite a lot of content was made. No information relating to the game has since been released, leading to the possibility that the project has in fact been abandoned. In 2014, EA was looking for a new developer of the reboot. In November 2013, EA announced the game will still be developed by a new game studio. It was then re-purposed in August 2012 as what would have been the first in a series of free-to-play games set in the Command & Conquer universe. Why dont they simply finish C&C Generals 2?Ģ012 the game was originally announced as Command & Conquer: Generals 2, as a direct sequel to 2003's Command & Conquer: Generals. We interviewed the San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney, prosecuting this case.ĭan Noyes: "You wrote a letter to Racop in September of last year saying that there would be no criminal charges. I love '66 Batman and Batman always stood with the law." As a Batman fan since I was 2 years old, this was a completely opposite side. I've never gone through anything like this ever before in my life, I am on the side of good. He only later found out they got a warrant for his Gmail, contacts and photos that they froze his bank account and charged him in California with two felonies - Obtaining Money by False Pretenses, and Diversion of Construction Funds. Racop says they read his Miranda Rights, brought him to the local jail for an hour, but let him go. I thought I was gonna have to move my other Batmobiles out of the way to be able to let them take this car."īut investigators took only two files of documents, according to the Search Warrant Return. So I thought, 'Oh, they're coming in to pick up his car,' which is right behind me, by the way. Mark Racop tells us, "Then, they showed the warrant saying that they were here to seize anything to do with his car. He sent a lieutenant, sergeant and two deputies to Indiana they raided Fiberglass Freaks last week - July 19. Where(i => i.Attributes.Where(a => a.Value = "_xfToken").Then, sources inside the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department tell the I-Team's Dan Noyes that the realtor asked his Facebook friend, Sheriff Carlos Bolanos, to intervene. The token value is found on the website prior to the post by scrapping the following value where HTML represents the login page: I'm attaching a bit more context to this message in the hope that someone can help spot my error.īased on the code in MillenniumEarl's repo, I'm posting the following string to (obviously I'm replacing the un/pw with my credentials). I'm getting a 400, not a 401 (that happens when you are working on too many projects at once). Does anyone know of a good way to access game-related data programmatically (and API perhaps)? PS: While I have already developed a method to retrieve data from this site for games in real-time, the code is somewhat fragile at the moment. Please keep in mind that this is very much a back-burner/after-hours/as I feel like it kind of project and any deliverable will probably be some time off. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts/ideas on what I have and what you would like. It will allow for private game rankings and notes, personal tag management (tags will be loaded from F95 initially, but can be modified as the user sees fit), and a locally installed service for Windows (initially) that will allow for launching games and tracking statistics on time played, managing library folders, and archiving/deleting old versions/unplayed games. My plans at the moment include a web-based manager that can retrieve games from the site on demand. I'm posting this thread in hopes that this community will provide me with some of the features they would like to see in a management application. This project will be a chance for me to explore new techniques that are off-limits to me in my professional work. To date, all of my development has been in an enterprise environment where my ability to innovate is somewhat stifled. In my professional life, I am a semi-developer (meaning that I develop, but it isn't my primary job role). I realize that a similar project already exists and has been in development for some time now, and my aim is not to usurp that work but to use this project to build my development skills. I am in the early phases of developing a web-based game manager applications to manage local game libraries. It also has contracts with smaller companies OneWeb and the Thailand-based mu Space corporation. For example, it will put a geostationary satellite into orbit for Eutelsat Communications in 2021 or 2022. This payload carrier will send a satellite into orbit, while the first stage lands safely on a ship's landing pad.īlue Origin has already signed a few customers for the rocket. Once it is above Earth, the rocket will separate its payload carrier from the first stage. The company received a contract valued at $3.7 million in 2010 during an early stage of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, and is also working on a crew capsule that would ride aboard New Shepard.įor New Glenn, the rocket's planned launch profile looks like this: It will lift from a launch pad (which in a video released in 2017, looked like Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where Blue Origin is constructing a complex). In November 2015, it became the first reusable rocket to make a soft ground landing. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Developmentīlue Origin is traditionally reticent about sharing its plans far ahead of time, but there is some information available about the company and about New Glenn as the rocket continues development.īlue Origin is currently developing and testing its New Shepard rocket, which also has a reusable first stage but is designed for suborbital flights. This Blue Origin graphic shows how the 270 feet (82 meters) and 313 feet (95 m) tall versions of New Glenn measure up to other rockets. Blue Origin's New Glenn orbital rocket will come in two versions to fly people in space and will be a towering booster. Airpods Max microphone is definitely one of the best when it comes to over-the-ear headphones, just have a listen for yourself on the demonstration below ( Skip to 4:46 for Airpods mic demonstration). This allows the microphone to pick up your voice clearly effectively. The outward-facing microphones simply detect and filter out background noise which helps with sound quality as well as microphone quality. The Airpods Max is equipped with eight total microphones, three are prioritized to simply pick up your voice while the rest focuses on blocking out external noise. One of the Airpods Max’s top-selling features is its sound-quality, Apple uses its own custom drivers to deliver high-quality sounds combined with its Active noise cancelation features which provide an immersive listening experience by effectively blocking out external noise.Īdditionally, Apple has included transparency mode to these headphones which allow you to turn off Active noise cancellation & listen to your environment effectively. Let’s take a look at how these features fair when it comes to gaming: This includes Active-noise cancellation, Transparency mode, a high-quality microphone, high-quality drivers, all designed to provide an immersive listening experience. It’s no secret that the Airpods Max is quite an expensive piece of equipment, however, with that premium price comes a fleet of high-quality features. You will be able to do this by simply connecting the cable to your controller allowing you to use this for both listening and communicating through the Airpods Max microphone.Īdditionally, using a wire is better when it comes to performance since you will not experience any latency issues which is typically found in wireless connections. The second method is to simply get an Apple Lightning to 3.5 mm Audio Cable and use your Airpods max wired. You will be able to listen & use your Airpods Max microphone completely wirelessly. In order to connect your adapter simply put both your headphones & the adapter in pairing mode, plug in the adapter to your PS5 and you will be good to go, it’s just that simple. The first is by using a Bluetooth adapter, this can be either a USB-C or USB-A adapter. There are two methods you can use in order to connect your Airpods max to your PS5. Final Thoughts Connect Airpods Max to PS5.How to Make Your Airpods Max The Ultimate Gaming Headphones. Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Princess Shokora at the end of Wario Land 4.Art Initiates Life: Hoggus from Wario Land 4, found in Doodle Woods.Artifact Title: Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land has no ties to the previous two games, aside from starring Wario and Mario making a brief cameo in the ending.However, at the end it is revealed that she was just manipulating Wario. Anti-Hero: Wario doesn't mind helping people out.An Axe to Grind: The Axe Ghosts in Wario Land 4.The Amazon: A certain jungle level from Wario Land 4-Monsoon Jungle.Generally averted in Wario Land 3, with its night/day mechanic, but the East side of the music box also fits this trope (until Wario collects the two sun fragments and allows the sun to rise on this side, at least). Always Night: Crescent Moon Village, Uncanny Mansion, Hotel Horror, Arabian Night, Bad Manor, Boogie Mansion, Shake King's Shakedown Schooner.All Just a Dream: One of the endings in Wario Land II - surprisingly enough, not the one you get by failing to wake up at the start of the game.AI Breaker: Stun-locking Cractus to death by repeatedly ground-pounding his head in Wario Land 4.After Boss Recovery: In Wario Land 1, money literally rains from the sky once a boss is beaten, as do hearts in one instance.Advancing Wall of Doom: First level of Stove Canyon in the original had a moving wall of instant death lava.Although in Wario Land 2, 3, and 4, one enemy's Status Buff is to make you even fatter so you can break certain blocks by jumping on them.and the Wario Land games is a far faster and more agile character than you'd expect from someone so overweight, being able to swing extremely high from bars and vines, jump rather high in normal and some other forms, and when shot from a machine in The Shake Dimension, run fast enough to glide across water. Saving the world is just a fortunate side effect of his treasure-hunting. Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Two in Crescent Moon Village in Wario Land 4: one in Arabian Nights in said game and one in the Golden Passage in the same game.See also: Wario Ware, Wario World, and Wario Master of Disguise. Wario Land: Shake It!/ The Shake Dimension for the Wii.Wario Land 4 for the Game Boy Advance (given a limited re-release in 2011 under the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Program).Wario Land II for the Game Boy, which got a colorized Updated Rerelease on the Game Boy Color.Virtual Boy Wario Land for the Virtual Boy (One of the few well-received games ever produced for the system.).Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 for the Game Boy.Unlike Mario, Wario usually has to be hit by an enemy to "power up" and they are usually used for solving puzzles rather than getting from A to B. Like Mario, Wario usually has a variety of power-ups which give him alternate abilities. Instead of Mario, Wario's nemesis in these games is usually Captain Syrup, a Femme Fatale pirate captain and her army of goblin-like pirates. While you can breeze through each level to reach the goal, usually every stage has a number of hidden treasures that must be found on alternate routes to reach 100% completion and the best ending. Wario can pick up enemies and objects to attack and solve puzzles, and generally has butt-stomp and charge attacks to deal with enemies. Wario is much stronger than the Mario Bros., so many of the games revolve around object manipulation and combat. The games play somewhat similarly to the Mario Bros series, with a few notable exceptions. The Wario Land series centers on Mario's Evil Counterpart, Wario, in the search for treasure. They largely supplanted the original handheld sidescrolling Mario series, which would not be revived until New Super Mario Bros. Specifically, a spinoff of the handheld original Mario titles Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. Other electric models include: HOFNER ELECTRICS: Committee, Verithin 66, Ambassador, President, Senator, Galaxie, HOFNER BASSES: Violin bass, Verithin bass, Senator bass, Professional bass GIBSON ELECTRICS: Barney Kessel, ES-330TD, ES-335TD, ES-345TD, ES-175D, ES-125CD, SG Standard, SG Junior, SG Special GIBSON BASSES: EB-0, EB-2, EB-3 - plus a LOT of acoustics branded Gibson, Hofner, Selmer and Gianniniīy the end of the 1960s, a decision had been made to move Epiphone guitar production from the USA (at the Kalamazoo plant where Gibson guitars were made), to Matsumoto in Japan, creating a line of guitars and basses significantly less expensive than the USA-built models (actually less than half the price). This catalogue saw the (re-)introduction of the late sixties Gibson Les Paul Custom and Les Paul Standard (see page 69) and the short-lived Hofner Club 70. Selmer were the exclusive United Kingdom distributors of Hofner and Gibson at the time, and this catalogue contains a total of 18 electric guitars, 7 bass guitars, 37 acoustics, and 2 Hawaiian guitars - all produced outside the UK and imported by Selmer, with UK prices included in guineas. Scan of 1968/1969 Selmer guitar catalogue (printed July 1968), showing the entire range of electric and acoustic guitars distributed by the company: guitars by Hofner, Gibson, Selmer and Giannini. Many of the basses designed at Fender have changed very little in the following years, a testament to the strengths of the original concepts. This lead to the introduction of some low-priced models, the Fender Telecaster bass in 1968 and the Fender Musicmaster bass in 1970. Companies were closing down, or moving production overseas. Combined with a generally poor economic climate in the US, guitar sales were going down. Although it had just one pickup and simple controls, it was a great bass, and sold well.Īs the Sixties turned into the Seventies, the American guitar manufacturers started receiving real competition from Japan. Unfortunately they were poorly received, and another commercial flop.īut another bass introduced in 1966 did fare better, the short scale Fender Mustang. Hollow-body guitars were all the rage in the mid 1960s, and inspired by the likes of the Gibson EB2 and Epiphone Rivoli, Fender hired designer Roger Rossmeisl to create the Coronado bass in 1966. Neither sold in particularly large numbers. The next basses were less successful Fender tried a six string version, the Bass VI in 1961, followed by a 5 string bass the Bass V in 1965. The Jazz bass was another very big sauces, appearing right at the beginning of the decade, and like the Precision, is still in production today. Other vintage Fender bassesīut Fender did produce other bass models the 1960s saw a massive boom in guitar-buying, and Fender experimented with different ideas. The Precisions portability is demonstrated here, by showing it inside an upright acoustic bass case. 1958 advertisement for the Fender Precision bass. crime rise in the major cities, about inflation, about pocketbook issues. They took an election that should have been about. "And I think that sort of proved that that lack of normalcy, that lack of stability among these politicians was something that really damaged them. Republicans, about these whackadoo folks who are denying elections," he said. In 2022, Democrats turned it into a conversation, successfully, about January 6th and about anti-democratic. READ MORE : ‘They blew up my life’: Fox News, a hidden camera and threats to an Indiana school administrator " Thiel, a prominent Silicon Valley investor and supporter of Donald Trump, acknowledged funding a legal battle against the gossip website that "outed" him as gay. Gawker faced fire for its no-holds-barred approach to celebrity coverage, but the court the case raised questions about whether powerful interests can use their resources to silence media for unfavorable coverage. The world was lost in darkness and desperately needed light." "Sometimes I would read old Gawker posts just to see if I still had the ability to laugh. I laughed a lot when I previously worked at Gawker, and I Iaughed a lot reading Gawker," she wrote. I thought about how I missed laughing at things on the internet. "The Gawker name was toxic, but also weirdly revered an intractable combination. "Who in God's name would want to edit a website that was cratered by an evil tech lord and sullied by a botched relaunch?" she said in a blog post. Leah Finnegan, the new Gawker editor who had worked at the publication from 2014 to 2015, said she decided to accept the challenge of a relaunch after some initial hesitation. The Gawker Media brands were sold to media group Univision, and the Gawker website was acquired in 2018 by Bustle owner Bryan Goldberg in a bankruptcy auction. The case ended in 2016 with a settlement calling for Hogan to be paid $31 million plus a share of Gawker Media assets sold in bankruptcy. The Gawker case divided media and press freedom advocates after it was revealed that Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel had funded Hogan's case as part of an effort to drive Gawker out of business. "The primarily Spanish-language media giant has recently bought shares in the satirical news site The Onion and the African-American-oriented site The Root," he reports.Gawker, the gossip website forced into bankruptcy following its posting of a celebrity sex tape, is relaunching under new ownership, the publisher said Wednesday.īustle Digital Group said it had hired Gawker's former writers and editors to relaunch the site, which went into bankruptcy after being ordered to pay $140 million to former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan over publication of a sex tape. The sale to Univision, if approved, would give the company websites that "are aimed at millennial readers," NPR's Nate Rott notes. Univision placed the winning bid for Gawker's assets and subsidiaries the deal still needs to be approved by a bankruptcy judge. is going to come after us and can my organization afford to defend me?"Īfter the case ended with a decision in Hogan's favor, Gawker Media claimed between $50 million and $100 million in assets, and between $100 million and $500 million in liabilities, "It's harder now for journalists to do stories about billionaires, like Peter Thiel, without having at the back of their minds the fear that maybe somebody deep-pocketed. Told NPR's David Folkenflik that the court case could have a chilling effect: And despite his quest to shut down Gawker, he has donated a million dollars to the Committee to Protect Journalists." And he will be a delegate for Trump at the Republican National Convention. "Though Thiel is gay, he donated money to Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, even though Cruz opposes gay marriage. Reported in May, Thiel is "a study in contradictions." The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June after a judge ordered it to pay $140 million for violating Hulk Hogan's privacy by publishing a sex video.īankrolled Hogan's lawsuit now-defunct Gawker site Valleywag outed Thiel in 2007. Gawker Media's six other sites are Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku and Lifehacker. "Staffers will soon be assigned to other editorial roles, either at one of the other six sites or elsewhere within Univision." "Nick Denton, the company's outgoing CEO, informed current staffers of the site's fate on Thursday afternoon, just hours before a bankruptcy court in Manhattan will decide whether to approve Univision's bid for Gawker Media's other assets," J.K. , the flagship site of Gawker Media, will be shutting down operations next week, as the other sites in the company are in the process of being sold to Univision. |
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